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2. A COMPUTING SCALE SYSTEM COMPRISING: A WEIGHING MECHANISM INCLUDING A SCALE AND A MOVABLE ELEMENT PROPORTIONALLY DISPLACED BY A WEIGHT ON SAID SCALE; A DIGITAL COMPUTER FOR COMPUTING THE WEIGHT AND PRICE OF AN ARTICLE WEIGHED BY SAID WEIGHING MECHANISM; AND AN OPTICAL SHAFT POSITION ENCODER COUPLING SAID COMPUTER TO SAID WEIGHTING MECHANISM; SAID ENCODER BEING PROPORTIONALLY MECHANICALLY ROTATED BY SAID MOVABLE ELEMENT, SAID ENCODER HAVING A PLURALITY OF PARALLEL WEIGHT OUTPUTS DESCRIBING A WEIGHT ON SAID SCALE IN A CYCLIC DIGITAL CODE, SAID COMPUTER INCLUDING AN INTERNAL CLOCK PULSE GENERATOR, A WEIGHT REGISTER, A PRICE REGISTER, MULTIPLIER MEANS, AND SELECTABLE INPUT MEANS FOR SELECTABLY SETTING PRICE PER UNIT WEIGHT INFORMATION THEREIN, SAID MULTIPLIER MEANS BEING DRIVEN BY SAID CLOCK PULSE GENERATOR AND PROVIDING A NUMBER OF OUTPUT PULSES TO THE PRICE REGISTER PROPORTIONAL TO AND CONTROLLED BY SAID SELECTABLE INPUT MEANS AND SAID WEIGHT OUTPUTS OF SAID ENCODER, SAID WEIGHT REGISTER ACCUMULATING A TOTAL NUMBER OF PULSES FROM SAID CLOCK PULSE GENERATOR DETERMINED BY SAID WEIGHT OUTPUTS OF SAID ENCODER; AND OUTPUTS MEANS ACTUATED BY SAID COMPUTER PROVIDING OUTPUT INDICIA INDICATIVE OF THE NET WEIGHT AND PRICE OF AN ARTICLE ON SAID SCALE FROM SAID PRICE REGISTER AND SAID WEIGHT REGISTER. 